The Virgil Encyclopedia, 3 Volume Set

Herausgegeben von Thomas, Richard F.; Ziolkowski, Jan M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Virgil Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Virgil, a poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia.Over 2,200 carefully researched entries provide an in-depth treatment of all aspects of Virgil's poetry, including the Greek and Roman literary traditions that inform his three great collections, the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and the reception of Virgil's oeuvre in literature, art, and music down through the ages.

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Featuring over 2,200 entries, The Virgil Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Virgil, a poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia.

Fills a gap in scholarship by representing the first comprehensive and up-to-date Virgil Encyclopedia published in English
Offers readers a new accessibility not previously available on Virgil scholarship
Complements existing Virgil reference works by providing readers of all levels an approachable point of entry into further Virgil studies
Brings together over 350 contributors who are top scholars in various periods of literary and cultural studies
Explore a full list of entries, contributor information, and more about this work at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/virgil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405154980
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 1600
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 207mm x 139mm
• Gewicht: 3024g
• ISBN-13: 9781405154987
• ISBN-10: 1405154985
• Artikelnr.: 37045030

Autorenporträt

Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His books include Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition (1982), a two-volume commentary on Virgil's Georgics (1988), Reading Virgil and his Texts (1999), Virgil and the Augustan Reception (2001), and a commentary on Horace, Odes 4 and Carmen Saeculare (2011). Jan M. Ziolkowski is Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University. His books include Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Songs in the Early Middle Ages (2007); Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (2007); The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, co-edited with Michael C. J. Putnam (2008); and Solomon and Marcolf (2008).

Rezensionen

"It should be of widespread use well beyond Classics, and would even be suitable for school libraries... The editors more than deliver on their hope to 'contribute, even in a small way, to the continuation of the Virgilian tradition by facilitating the work of those who teach and study it'" - Classical Review, Jan. 2015

"It is all here, and more; besides, I cannot see t his encyclopedia being even partially superseded for very many years, if at all, which makes it a sound investment for any library." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)

"This wide-ranging work will be invaluable to anyone interested in Virgil, although its price will make it inaccessible to many. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 May 2014) "Their wish is not to provide a comprehensive, self-standing resource so much as a conduit to the 'large and vibrant field of Virgilian studies', both digital and bibliographical, their abmit 'everything of importance that enters into Virgil, that is in Virgil, and that comes out of Virgil into literature, art, and music.'" (Times Literary Supplement, January 2014)